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Past Events<\/h1>\n
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FROM VENICE TO VENEZUELA: UTOPIA AND ITS TRAVELS<\/h1>\n
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Sunday, June 25, 2017 |\u00a0<\/span>6:00pm<\/span> to <\/span>7:00pm<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Magdalen College School (Hall), Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DZ<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Utopia began life as a learned Latin fiction, with the publication in 1516 of Thomas More\u2019s imaginary blue-print for an ideal island community. Within a century, Utopia had migrated \u2013 as both idea and political project \u2013 into many different languages and locations across the globe. From Europe to the New World, from More through Montaigne to Shakespeare (and beyond), the travels of Utopia represent a timely challenge to political and cultural insularity, as we ourselves try to start picturing what \u2018better\u2019 might look like now.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Join Professor Wes Williams and Professor Richard Scholar of Oxford University for a fascinating discussion.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Tickets:<\/b> \u00a38\/\u00a36\/\u00a32
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STORMING UTOPIA: MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL<\/h1>\n
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Storming Utopia at Oxford Festival of the Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Saturday, June 24, 2017 |\u00a0<\/span>8:00pm<\/span> to <\/span>9:00pm<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Magdalen College School (MSC Rose Garden), Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DZ<\/strong><\/div>\n
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A theatrical experiment in practical utopianism, and a story about life on an island \u2013 a \u2018mash-up\u2019 of themes and stories from Shakespeare\u2019s Tempest, More\u2019s Utopia, and the political geography of post-Brexit Oxford. This new inter-generational show, made in partnership between Oxford University\u2019s TORCH and Pegasus Theatre, brings alive the conflicts, tensions, and hopes that animate the lives, and loves, of our diverse East Oxford community today.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Tickets:<\/b> \u00a38\/\u00a36\/\u00a32
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Storming Utopia<\/a><\/div>\n
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STORMING UTOPIA: ST LUKE’S CHAPEL<\/h1>\n
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Thursday, May 11, 2017 |\u00a0<\/span>12:30pm<\/span> to <\/span>2:00pm<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, OX2 6AD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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St Luke’s Chapel<\/strong><\/div>\n
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This event is an Oxford Public Engagement with Research and part of a <\/span>Knowledge Exchange project<\/a>. Organised by\u00a0<\/span>Professor\u00a0Wes Williams<\/a>\u00a0(Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) and <\/span>Richard Scholar<\/a>\u00a0(Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thomas More\u2019s ground-breaking island fantasy, first published in 1516, asks us all what brave new world we are to wish for. What would a society better than ours look like? Who ought to be allowed in? And on what terms? These are More\u2019s questions in Utopia<\/em>, and they have never mattered more than today, as the UK prepares to pursue a political future outside the EU and walls go up in the US. It may seem timely to return to the traditional reading of More\u2019s text as a blueprint for political change: Utopia tells, after all, how a peninsula cut itself off from the continent to make a better future as an island\u2026 Yet the name More created for his island \u2013 Utopia \u2013 means \u2018no place\u2019: the political message of More\u2019s text is undermined by the surrounding irony that his brave new world is a Nowhere Island.<\/p>\n

A group of East Oxford residents have come together to develop a creative contemporary response to More\u2019s text and Shakespeare\u2019s Tempest <\/em>in the form of a new theatrical show, Storming Utopia<\/em>, which they are performing at the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford and at the Fondazione Cini in Venice in 2017. This lunchtime discussion event builds on their perspectives and on the work of two Oxford researchers \u2013 Professor Richard Scholar and Professor Wes Williams \u2013 to explore what Utopia has meant since 1516, from Venice to Venezuela and beyond, and what it might mean here in Oxford in the age of Brexit. Participants will include: researchers working on the history of Utopian literature and thought from the Renaissance to the present day; writers, directors and facilitators working in the Oxford arts scene; members of the Storming Utopia project.<\/p>\n

Confirmed speakers: James Attlee (author of Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey<\/em>); Sara-Louise Cooper (Caribbean studies, Oxford); Euton Daley MBE (long term artistic director of Pegasus Theatre, now freelance performance poet and arts consultant) ; Erin Maglaque (History, Oxford); Angharad Arnott Philips (former Youth Arts Leader at Pegasus, now freelance theatre director ) Richard Scholar (French and comparative literature, Oxford); Wes Williams (French literature, Oxford).<\/p>\n

The event is free and registration is required. Click here<\/a> to register for your free ticket.<\/p>\n

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STORMING UTOPIA: PEGASUS THEATRE<\/h1>\n
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Thursday, April 6, 2017 | 8:00pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Rd, Oxford, OX4 1RE<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Part of a Knowledge Exchange Programme with the Pegasus Theatre and others within Oxford, Storming Utopia has been engaging a range of people in discussions about ideal communities, and the relation between Thomas More\u2019s Utopia, first published 500 years ago, Shakespeare\u2019s Tempest, and Oxford, today. The central questions that have been asked are: who owns, runs, or governs the city we live in? how do you get in, and how do you leave? Do the various parts of Oxford \u2013 schools, mosques, churches, rivers, playgrounds, shopping centres, colleges\u2026 and theatres \u2013 make of our city a Utopia, or just a collection of islands?\u00a0 These are ancient questions, but they all still matter today.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Seats will be available for sale on a first come, first served basis from Tuesday 28 February.<\/p>\n

You may book additional tickets at the box office in person or by phone.<\/p>\n

All tickets are \u00a34 whatever age the person coming.<\/p>\n


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Call Pegasus Theatre Tuesday to Friday 11am \u2013 6pm, Saturday 10am \u2013 2pm on 01865 812150.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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